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Not one instance ! 



The man who wrote this leader was wilfully per- 

 verting the facts in obedience to the dictates of the 

 Man in the Street. 



Do the people who read such stuff know that the 

 Transvaal Government threw into prison British 

 subjects who refused to bear arms against the 

 Zulus ? Do they know that the property of British 

 subjects was confiscated without trial ? Do they 

 know that the very moderate tax (indirect as well as 

 direct) imposed upon the gold miners of the Rand 

 brought them to beggary and starvation ? Let 

 those who doubt the unparalleled corruption and 

 oppression of the Boers read such books as " The 

 Transvaal from Within," " Side Lights on South 

 Africa," or the Blue Books. 



I will cite one more instance of deliberate mis- 

 representation upon the part of the American Press. 

 When famine and plague were ravaging India in 

 1897, Mr. Julian Hawthorne was sent by the " Cos- 

 mopolitan Magazine " to report at length upon the 

 condition of the natives and the efforts made by the 

 British Government to ameliorate their unhappy 

 lot. Mr. Julian Hawthorne — as all the world 

 knows — is the famous son of a more famous father, 

 and no better choice could have been made. To 

 such a man public and private doors alike were 

 flung wide open. He saw and described the horrors 

 of starvation and disease, and what he wrote was 

 widely read and as widely discussed. My numbers 

 of the " Cosmopolitan Magazine " which contain his 

 report are tossing about somewhere between Hamp- 

 shire and Cape Horn, so I cannot quote Mr. Haw- 



